About the book:Finals week is approaching and Mac is still undecided on where to spend the holidays. Normally she'd go home to Scotland, but spending two weeks alone in the castle with her dad isn't as appealing as it used to be. So she invites Carly, Lissa, Gillian, and Shani to join her for the holidays!
Mac is determined to make this the best Christmas ever. She even decides to organize the traditional Hogmany dance for New Year's Eve. If she can get her mother involved in the dance, maybe her parents will finally get back together.
But when Mac and the girls arrive in Scotland, they are faced with bad news: the castle is falling apart and Mac's parents are struggling financially. Not only that, but Shani is in big trouble with Prince Rashid's royal family. Can the girls find a way to celebrate the holidays, get Mac's parents back together, save the castle, and rescue Shani from her relentless pursuers? There's only one way to find out. . . .
drey's thoughts:
It Christmas time! And Mac has to figure out how to spend Christmas with her new posse, without totally dissing her friends from back home. So... she invites the girls to spend Christmas with her. Problem solved!
Only thing is, it's not. For one thing, the group she left behind aren't so welcoming to her new friends. And the huge-castle-is-a-money-pit issue rears its head, but her father doesn't want to talk about it. And she's trying to single-handedly organize a humongous New Year's Eve party.
And this wouldn't be a girly book--a teen girly book at that--if there weren't boys involved. Relationships and friendships are filtered through, and the girls realize that they can get through anything if they're strong and stay true to their friends.
Title: Tidings of Great Boys (All About Us #5)
Author: Shelley Adina
ISBN-10: 0446179639
ISBN-13: 9780446179638
ARC: 229 pages
Publisher: Faithwords, 2009
Challenges: 100+, Pub
